Jeff Donnell

Biography

Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in South Windham, Maine. As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama. She was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures in 1942 and made her film debut in My Sister Eileen. She later had roles in some RKO films. She was not a major star, but she did have a lengthy film and television career in various supporting roles, including the role of Gidget's mother, "Dorothy Lawrence", opposite Carl Reiner in the 1961 movie Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Adam-12

Love, American Style

Love, American Style

Emergency!

Matinee Theater

All Movies (69)

• Portrait of a Stripper1979 · as Edith Sterling
• Rendezvous Hotel1979 · as Mrs. Williams
• Murder by Natural Causes1979 · as Mrs. Mathews
• Spider-Man1977 · as Aunt May Parker
• A Gift of Terror1973 · as Mrs. Cummings
• Stand Up and Be Counted1972 · as Ruth
• Congratulations, It's a Boy!1971 · as Rose
• Love Hate Love1971 · as Mary Blunden
• Tora! Tora! Tora!1970 · as Cornelia
• The Comic1969 · as Nurse
• Bristle Face1964 · as Mrs. Jarkey
• Gidget Goes to Rome1963 · as Mrs. Lawrence
• The Iron Maiden1963 · as Miriam Fisher
• Force of Impulse1961 · as Louise Reese
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian1961 · as Dorothy Lawrence
• My Man Godfrey1957 · as Molly
• Sweet Smell of Success1957 · as Sally
• Destination 60,0001957 · as Ruth Buckley
• The Guns of Fort Petticoat1957 · as Mary Wheller
• Sincerely, Willis Wade1956 · as Sylvia
• Magnificent Roughnecks1956 · as Julie
• Meet the O'Briens1954 · as Nancy
• Massacre Canyon1954 · as Cora
• Flight Nurse1953 · as Lt. Ann Phillips
• So This Is Love1953 · as Henrietta Van Dyke
• The Blue Gardenia1953 · as Sally Ellis
• Because You're Mine1952 · as Patty Ware
• Skirts Ahoy!1952 · as Giff
• Thief of Damascus1952 · as Sheherazade
• The First Time1952 · as Donna Gilbert
• Three Guys Named Mike1951 · as Alice Raymend
• Walk Softly, Stranger1950 · as Gwen
• Redwood Forest Trail1950 · as Julie Wescott
• The Fuller Brush Girl1950 · as Jane Bixby
• Big Timber1950 · as Sally
• Hoedown1950 · as Vera Wright
• In a Lonely Place1950 · as Sylvia Nicolai
• Easy Living1949 · as Penny McCarr
• Post Office Investigator1949 · as April Shaughnessy
• Outcasts of the Trail1949 · as Vinnie White
• Stagecoach Kid1949 · as Jessie Arnold
• Roughshod1949 · as Elaine Wyatt
• Mr. District Attorney1947 · as Miss Miller
• It's Great to Be Young1946 · as Georgia Johnson
• Singing on the Trail1946 · as Cindy Brown
• Cowboy Blues1946 · as Susan Nelson
• The Unknown1946 · as Nina Arnold
• That Texas Jamboree1946 · as Jean Warren
• The Phantom Thief1946 · as Anne Parks Duncan
• Night Editor1946 · as Martha Cochrane
• Throw a Saddle on a Star1946 · as Judy Lane
• Tars and Spars1946 · as Peggy McDougal
• Song of the Prairie1945 · as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
• Over 211945 · as Jan Lupton
• A Thousand and One Nights1945 · as Harem Girl
• The Power of the Whistler1945 · as Frances 'Francie' Lane
• Eadie Was a Lady1945 · as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
• Carolina Blues1944 · as Charlotte Barton
• Dancing in Manhattan1944 · as Julie Connors
• 3 Is a Family1944 · as Hazel Whittaker
• Mr. Winkle Goes to War1944
• She's a Soldier Too1944 · as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
• Stars on Parade1944 · as Mary Brooks
• Nine Girls1944 · as "Butch" Hendricks
• There's Something About a Soldier1943 · as Jean Burton
• Doughboys in Ireland1943 · as Molly Callahan
• A Night to Remember1942 · as Anne Carstairs
• The Boogie Man Will Get You1942 · as Winnie Slade
• My Sister Eileen1942 · as Helen Loomis

All TV Shows (47)

• Gibbsville1976
• McNaughton's Daughter1976 · as Mrs. Wilson
• Matt Helm1975 · as Ethel
• Paper Moon1974 · as Mrs. Carson
• The Girl with Something Extra1973
• Police Story1973
• Barnaby Jones1973 · as Janet Gossett
• Here We Go Again1973 · as Aunt Patti
• The ABC Afternoon Playbreak1972 · as Mrs. Cummings
• The Bob Newhart Show1972 · as Clara Hackler
• Emergency!1972 · as Katie
• Me and the Chimp1972
• Cannon1971
• The Partridge Family1970 · as Mrs. Monahan
• Love, American Style1969 · as Mrs. Hutton
• Love, American Style1969 · as Mrs. Gellar
• Medical Center1969 · as Mrs. Hersey
• Marcus Welby, M.D.1969 · as Cleaning Woman
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors1969 · as Nurse Klein
• Adam-121968 · as Mrs. James Nelson
• The Mothers-in-Law1967 · as Elaine
• Felony Squad1966
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Rooming House Manager
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Mrs. Kraft
• Gidget1965
• Daniel Boone1964 · as Varna Montgomery
• The Addams Family1964 · as Eleanor Digby
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Evelyn Driscoll
• Mister Ed1961 · as Martha Harper
• Special for Women1960 · as The Career Woman
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson1959 · as Millie Moon
• Perry Mason1957 · as Sylvia Dykes
• Perry Mason1957 · as Rose Carol
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956 · as Self
• Matinee Theater1955
• The Wonderful World of Disney1954 · as Mrs. Jarkey
• Climax!1954 · as Kay Matheson
• The George Gobel Show1954 · as Self
• Studio 571954
• Omnibus1952 · as Helen
• The Ford Television Theatre1952 · as Doris
• Cavalcade of America1952 · as Ann Rutledge
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Pug
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Marlene
• Racket Squad1951